Child&#39;s waist



H. GRAY.

CHILDS WAIST.

APPLICATION men no.9, 1919.

Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

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H. GRAY.

CHILD'S WAIST. APPLICIATlON FILED DEC .9. 1919- 1,410,401. Patented Mar. 21, 1922,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHILDS WAIST.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

Application filed December 9, 1919. Serial No. 843,459.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that HARRIETTEGRAY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, has invented new and useful Improvements in Childrens Waists, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a garment in the general form of and adapted to serveas a waist and designedpan ticularly for childrens wear which will afford a su'pportfor nether garments, hose, etc., under such conditions asto sustain the weight thereof from 'the shoulders of'the wearer and without the tendency common to garment supporting waists as nowconstructed to become bunched, crowded or disarranged at the waist-line, and thus detracting from the neatness of appearance of the outer garments, the said supporting waist being particularly intended for'use as an underwaist 'so'fthat the support by it'of the nether garments will not affect the'draping and set of the outer garments, and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction and [combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of an under waist constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a view of the same showing the inner side thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 8--3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a detail view of the lower portion of one of the garment supporting loops.

The body portion of the garment is constructed in the form of a relatively tightfitting waist or under-vest as shown at 10, any suitable or preferred material being employed for that purpose and any suitable fastening means such as buttons and buttonholes being employed either at the front or back to hold the same in place, and the armholes 11 are reenforced by circumscribing bands 12, with the seam 13 connecting the extremities thereof located substantially eoinoident with the shoulder seam 14 of the body portion of the garment, although obviously this feature is subject to modification according to the preference of the dressmaker.

Depending from each armhole reenforcement band is a garment supporting loop consisting of downwardly convergent suspender elements 15 attached at their upper ends to the 'reenforcement band 12 respectively in tangential relation to those portionsof the band which are arranged in front and, in rear of the armhole, so that a downward strain applied to the tapes constituting said Suspender elements will be carried by the band 12 and imposed upon the shoulder of the wearer of the garment.

The 'suspender elements are joined at their lower ends to form a loop and in practice it is preferred, as shown in the drawing, to construct both elements of a single length of tape folded at the lower end to produce the loop, the complete looped member being disposed within the contour of the garment and being arranged within the same as shown in Figure 2 to the end that it is concealed by the body portion of the garment when in use, and any attachment thereto for the support of nether garments is made above the lower edge of the body portion of the garment.

In the downwardly convergent Suspender elements near the fold forming the loop there are arranged eyelets 16 which are transversely aligned or are adapted to be arranged in a common horizontal plane, it being understood that any desired number of such eyelets may be employed in each element, to the end that eyelets thus transversely aligned may be mutually engaged by a safety pin 17 indicated in dotted lines 1n Figure 2 or any equivalent nether garment or hose supporter attaching means. Obviously the flexibility of the suspender elements and the foldability of the same at their junction forming the loop will permit of forward and rearward movement of the loop and hence of the plane of attachment of any attached garment supporting means either forwardly or rearwardly of the vertical plane of the center of the armhole, to the end that the direction of lift of the suspender loop may be varied to suit the position of garments supported therefrom and also to adapt the direction of lift to the position of the wearer. As will be seen a considerable amplitude of movement of the lower or looped end of the Suspender is possible by reason of the length of the suspender elements or the distance between the loop connecting the same or the point of attachment of garment supporting means thereto and the points of attachment of the upper extremities of said elements to the armhole band or reenforcement, so that as the wearer bends forwardly or rearwardly at the waistline the suspending devices will swing in accordance with these movements to vary the direction or line of lift so as to insure a proper support of the garments depending upon the loops without unduly straining either such supported garments or the under-waist which sustains the sus penders.

The permanence of the attachment of the upper ends of the suspender elements may be assured by engaging zthe same between the, reenforcing band 12 and the material forming the body of the garment as shown by the dotted lines in Figure2 and also in section in Figure 3 and the engagement of the attaching means represented in the drawings by the safety pin 17 may be varied with reference to the suspender elements to normally position the loop between said elements either in the vertical plane of the cen ter of the armhole or slightly in front or in rear of the, same to suit the preference of the wearer and the character of the garments to be supported thereby, to the end that the maximum of comfort may be secured in each particular instance and with regard to the individual wearer. The loop representing each suspender element being attached to the garment only at the extremities of the sides of the loop, it isobvious that the bend of the loop may be VZLIiBCl',lOIlgitudinally of the tape forming the loop so as to respectively or relatively vary the lengths of the sides ofthe loop to position the bend either forwardly or rearwardly and hence shift correspondingly the line of suspending strain upon any nether garment which may be supported by the loop, to suit the character of such garment and the comfort and convenience of the wearer.

The lower portion of the body of the garment is provided with awaist band preferably consisting of parallel reenf'oro'ing strips 18 and 19 from each ofwhich depend looped tapes 2O engaging buttons 21 or equivalent means to facilitate the attach ment of garments, the indicated reenforcement at the waistline serving as an additional means of maintaining the garment in proper position with relation to the body of the wearer and tending to avoid the inconveniences incident to bunches or folds at the waistline due to the movements of the wearer. 1

What is claimed is: I

An underwaist having at each side a de- 7 a pending garment supporting loop, of which the extremities are secured to the waist respectively in front and in rear ofthe arm hole and of which the bend is shiftable forwardly and rearwardly to vary the respective lengths of the sides of the loop and the line of suspendi-n strains upona garment supported by the loop.

In testimony whereof she afiixes her signature. i V

HARRIETTE GRAY. 

